A Civil Action (1998)
A tenacious lawyer takes on a case involving a major company responsible for causing several people to be diagnosed with leukemia due to the towns water supply being contaminated, at the risk of bankrupting his firm and career
Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)
A prepubescent chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer
The Night Of (TV Series 2016)
After a night of partying with a woman he picked up, a man wakes up to find her stabbed to death and is charged with her murder